IDENTIFYING A CAR: A Coast Guard special sea rescue worker checked a plate from a car in a river in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Friday. (Kimimasa Mayama/European Pressphoto Agency)

JUMP!: Kayleigh Perkins leapt from the UL-72 Miss Foster Care hydroplane that caught fire as she taxied to shore after a test run in Lake Washington during a spring training event, Thursday, in Seattle. There was an explosion shortly before she leaped into the water. Ms. Perkins was uninjured. (John Lok/The Seattle Times/Associated Press)

MEDICAL HELP: A boy of the Kayapo tribe played in front of his house in the Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil, Friday, where the “Expedicionarios da Saude” organization was setting up a mobile hospital. Twice a year, the group works with volunteer doctors to provide clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents of the Amazonian Rainforest. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

BOOTLEG BOOTY: A worker dealt with counterfeit DVDs during a campaign against piracy in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. A total of 168,000 counterfeit publications and audio-visual products were destroyed during the campaign on Friday, 4 days before World Intellectual Property Day. (Zuma Press)

BORDER CONFLICT: An injured Thai soldier was transported to a hospital near the border in Surin province, Friday. Thailand and Cambodia exchanged artillery and gunfire for several hours in a flare-up of a long-running border dispute, and their militaries said six soldiers were killed. (Reuters)

FIREFIGHT: A Libyan rebel fighter fired from a window at pro-Gadhafi troops in the besieged city of Misrata, the main rebel holdout. U.S. Sen. John McCain praised Libya’s rebels as his “heroes’’ in a visit to their de-facto capital Friday. (Associated Press)

ON GUARD: A Hungarian police officer guarded a Gypsy neighborhood in the village of Gyongyospata, Hungary, Friday. Police detained several members of a far-right vigilante group after hundreds of frightened Roma women and children were bused out of a village where it was planning to train. (Bela Szandelszky/Associated Press)

WEDDING PREP: Guides prepared the streets of the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, England, Friday for its street party to celebrate the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

OVER THE WATER: A man jumped from a raft in Tosno, Russia, Friday. Flooding has affected the Leningrad region. (Zuma Press)

FRIDAY PRAYERS: Men performed their Friday prayers before staging a protest against the Syrian regime in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday. The demonstration in support of Syrian demonstrators was called for by the Tahrir Party. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)

Q&A: Pop Benedict XVI answered people’s questions in an unprecedented session on television to mark Good Friday. In a prerecorded appearance on Italian state TV, he replied to some of a few thousand questions submitted by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. (Zuma Press)

NO CROSSING: Turkish riot police arrested a protester at the entrance of the Bosphorus Bridge Friday in Istanbul. A group of Kurdish protesters tried to block the traffic across the Bosphorous to protest the Turkish government’s policy on Kurds. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

PLACE TO REST: A homeless boy slept as people walked past him on a busy street in Kathmandu. The number of homeless street children is rising in the streets of the Nepali capital, a growing problem in one of the world’s poorest countries. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

EARTH DAY: Dhanmattie Harripersaud got help from her son Gurudeo, 2, during a beach clean-up event for Earth Day at Gateway National Recreational Area in New York Friday. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)